A bright red berry of the heath family About 70% of the crop comes from the Cape Cod area Because of their tartness, they are often combined with other fruits and used in chutneys, pies, and other desserts
Cranberries are red berries with a sour taste. They are often used to make a sauce or jelly that you eat with meat. cranberries a small red sour fruit. Fruit of any of several small creeping or trailing plants of the genus Vaccinium (heath family), related to the blueberry. The small-fruited, or northern, cranberry (V. oxycoccus) is found in marshy land in northern North America and Asia and in northern and central Europe. Its crimson berries, about the size of currants and often spotted, have an acid taste. The American cranberry (V. macrocarpon), found wild in most of the northeastern U.S. and grown extensively in Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Wisconsin and near the Pacific coast in Washington and Oregon, is more robust than V. oxycoccus, with larger, pink to very dark red or mottled red-and-white berries. Cranberries are used in drinks, sauces, jellies, and baked goods
cranberrıes
Турецкое произношение
kränberiz
Произношение
/ˈkranˌberēz/ /ˈkrænˌbɛriːz/
Этимология
[ 'kran-"ber-E, -b(&-)rE ] (noun.) 1647. part translation of Low German kraanbere, from kraan crane + bere berry.